Pocahontas County Fare

Postmark: St. Paul, MINN, 6 pm Nov. 19, 1910. Dear Florence, I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. Did you get my letter? What are you folk...

My work life has, the last few months, involved quite a bit of directory planning and index-making. I hadn't thought of it as an avenue ...

Have you noticed that every time I mention William T. Price on here, I fall silent for a long time afterwards? No? It's true. Because I...

For the last few months I've been scanning documents from the Pocahontas County Historical Society's archives. I'm still working...

Sometimes a blog can be a handy online filing cabinet for things like this: 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills . It...

How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel--This is chapter 3, "Schrodinger's Dog." It's wonderful. I can't t...

Our garden had mixed success this year, but one crop I was very pleased with was the Black Hungarian Peppers I ordered from Seed Savers E...

We're living in the new house now, still doing finish work, and still moving in, a little at a time. I don't have any interesting pr...

I've received a complaint from Pendleton County on lack of new house photo coverage. August was a busy month, but it turns out that newl...

I made three trips in three days to the big-box home improvement store in Lewisburg this week. I don't usually go to Lewisburg more tha...

I've painted the drywall with primer, and we've installed the ceramic tiles we'll use as a "hearth" for the wood stov...

The drywall is up now, and last week I painted it with primer. It has become hard to photograph progress now that all the walls are up and ...

A few weeks ago, Larry Ayers, of "Riverside Rambles" posted a link to Norman Blake's version of "Done Gone" . I sta...

I don't use Microsoft products myself, but I recently put together some training sessions on Excel spreadsheets. Here's the list of ...

Like other cats, Princess enjoys a new cardboard box. However, this puny box makes her look like another candidate for the Washington-based...

The house siding has been complete for some time, but rain and other projects have kept us from staining the exterior. Inside, drywall is g...

It's beginning to look like our part of West Virginia is a required stop on Washington D.C.-based journalism's "2009 Poverty Ro...

We've been seeing more snakes here this spring than usual. This fellow was having some trouble avoiding cars out at the hard road, so w...

Hillsboro, my mailing address, got a brief feature last month in The Atlantic Magazine online: Taking Comfort in Small Joys . The series, c...

I've been teaching bunches of classes, but there's been unblogged house progress. Here you can see siding, and the setting of the p...